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INDUSTRIAL WASTE

Specialty Definition: INDUSTRIAL WASTE

DomainDefinition

Environment

Unwanted materials from an industrial operation; may be liquid, sludge, solid, or hazardous waste. (references)

Health

Worthless, damaged, defective, superfluous or effluent material from industrial operations. It represents an ecological problem and health hazard. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Specialty Definition: Industrial waste

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Industrial waste is a waste caused by industrial factories or mills. The problem began along with the outset of industrial revolution. Toxic waste and chemical waste are a kind of industrial waste.

Sewage treatment can be used to clean water tainted with industrial waste.

See also: waste management

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Industrial waste."

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Crosswords: INDUSTRIAL WASTE

Specialty definitions using "INDUSTRIAL WASTE": Chemical Stressors, CHEMIST, INSTRUMENTATIONenvironmental techniciaINSPECTOR, INDUSTRIAL WASTEPOLLUTION-CONTROL TECHNICIANSanitary Sewers, SOIL SCIENTIST, STEAM ELECTRIC PLANT. (references)

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Modern Usage: INDUSTRIAL WASTE

DomainUsage

Lyrics

And then rinse your mouth with industrial waste. (Pollution; performing artist: Tom Lehrer)

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Commercial Usage: INDUSTRIAL WASTE

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References

  • Industrial Waste Treatment Equipment in Taiwan: A Strategic Entry Report, 1996 (reference)

  • Hazardous Industrial Waste Equipment Market in Mexico: A Strategic Entry Report, 2000 (reference)

    (more reference examples)

  

Books

  • Hazardous and Industrial Waste Proceedings, 25th Mid-Atlantic Conference (reference)

  • Industrial Waste Treatment Processes Engineering Guide: Speical Treatment, Volume III (reference)

  • Proceedings of the 48th Industrial Waste Conference Purdue University, May 1993 (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

  

Music

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: INDUSTRIAL WASTE

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Business

More than 50% of the industrial waste is hazardous chemical waste. (references)

Germany is the third largest importer of industrial waste treatment equipment to Taiwan. (references)

The Japanese have come to dominate the industrial waste treatment equipment market in recent years. (references)

Economic History

Mexico

This sector includes equipment and instruments to measure or reduce air pollution, solid and industrial waste, and soil contamination. (references)

Spain

These penalties force Spanish industries to look for environmentally safer technologies and pollution control equipment to treat emissions and industrial waste. (references)

Bulgaria

There is a substantial need to find other ways for hazardous and industrial waste treatment, such as incineration, recycling, waste minimization, etc., which are still not very popular in Bulgaria. (references)

Trade

Kazakhstan

Goods not eligible for full or partial duty exemption are food products, industrial waste, and consumable materials. (references)

Kazakhstan

However, for health and security reasons, a number of imported commodities, such as pesticides, medicine, drugs, nuclear materials, weapons, certain chemicals, and industrial waste, are subject to licensing requirements. (references)

China

The catalogue identifies the following "prohibited commodities": used garments; used publications with licentious content; radioactive or harmful industrial waste; junk cars, used automobiles or components; seeds, seedlings, fertilizers, feed, additives, or antibiotics used in the cultivation or breeding of any export commodity. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Expressions: INDUSTRIAL WASTE

Expressions using "INDUSTRIAL WASTE": industrial waste water toxic industrial waste. Additional references.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: INDUSTRIAL WASTE

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

industrial waste

24

industrial waste disposal

17

industrial waste treatment

16

industrial waste water treatment

10

industrial waste management

5

industrial waste water

3

characteristic composition industrial waste

3

disposal india industrial waste

2

hazardous industrial waste

2
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Modern Translation: INDUSTRIAL WASTE

Language Translations for "INDUSTRIAL WASTE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

industrispildevand (industrial wastage, industrial waste water, industrial wastewaters, trade waters). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

industrieafval (factories waste, trade refuse). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

teollisuusjätevesi (industrial wastage, industrial waste water, industrial wastewaters, trade waters), saastunut teollisuusjäte (polluted industrial waste), jätevesi (effluent, sewage, waste water). (various references)

   

French

  

effluents industriels (industrial wastage, industrial waste water, industrial wastewaters), eaux résiduelles industrielles (industrial wastage, industrial waste water, industrial wastewaters), eaux résiduaires industrielles (industrial wastage, industrial waste water, industrial wastewaters), eaux industrielles usées (industrial wastage, industrial waste water, industrial wastewaters), déchet industriel pollué (polluted industrial waste). (various references)

   

German

  

Industriemüll. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

βιομηχανικά λύματα (industrial wastage, industrial waste water, industrial wastewaters, trade waters), υγρά βιομηχανικά απόβλητα (industrial wastage, industrial waste water, industrial wastewaters, trade waters). (various references)

   

Italian

  

effluenti industriali (industrial wastage, industrial waste water, industrial wastewaters, trade waters), acque reflue industriali (industrial wastage, industrial waste water, industrial wastewaters, trade waters), acque di scarico industriali (industrial wastage, industrial waste water, industrial wastewaters, trade waters). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

"業廃棄物 , "廃 . (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

さ"ぎょうはいきぶつ, さ"ぱい (acidification, crushing failure, ignominious defeat, overwhelming defeat, utterly beaten, worship, worshipping three times). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

industrialay asteway

   

Portuguese

  

resduos industriais. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

desechos industriales. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

förorenat industriavfall (polluted industrial waste), avloppsvatten (drainage, sewage). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

sanayi atığı, endüstriyel atık. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: INDUSTRIAL WASTE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-d-e-i-i-l-n-r-s-s-t-t-u-w"

-2 letters: interstadials.

-3 letters: antirealists, interstadial.

-4 letters: adulterants, andalusites, antirealist, industrials, naturalised, naturalises, naturalists, neutralists, stridulates, transudates, wanderlusts.

-5 letters: adulterant, aerialists, andalusite, antitrades, attainders, auslanders, denturists, disentails, distraints, industrial, industries, intertidal, nasalities, natalities, naturalise, naturalist, neutralist, resultants, ritualists, saintliest, sanitaries, saturniids, statuaries, sterilants, stridulate, sultanates, tailwaters, tanistries, tantalised, tantalises, tantaluses, tawdriness, tearstains, titularies, translated, translates, transudate.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Usage: Modern
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Images: Slideshow
5. Quotations: Non-fiction
6. Expressions
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Translations: Modern
9. Anagrams
10. Bibliography


  

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